2.5/5 starsLead cast: Nam Joo-hyuk, Roh Yoon-seo, Cho Seung-wooHorror has traditionally served as summer fare in South Korea, offering audiences a cinematic escape from the monsoon heat. While the trend has waned in recent years, the genre is making a fierce comeback this season across both film and television.The Wailing director Na Hong-jin returns to cinemas with his big-budget sci-fi creature epic Hope; Park Eun-bin leads Spooky in Love, a small-screen remake of the horror-romcom Spellbound; and Netflix is wading in with its tentpole period occult thriller The East Palace – with all three arriving in mid-July.The East Palace | Official Trailer | NetflixThe East Palace is a lavish period series that sees Cho Seung-woo (Stranger) play a king whose palace falls into gloom as its crown princes succumb to mysterious deaths one by one, mirroring a pattern of events that occurred three decades earlier and led to the current king’s ascension.